They were being proper shady to him. Even if you don't like someone, locking them out, stealing their clothes and ganging up on them to take the piss is just childish.

Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.

Say, in what nasty cellar under ground <br?Or what church porch your rogueship may be found?

[A]ll men doe agree, that thoſe medicines are profitable vvhich doe extenuate, as all thoſe doe vvhich haue a propertie to prouoke vrine, and Betonie is of this qualitie, and therefore beeing taken vvith VVine, it muſt needes doe good in venomous bytings, and that not onely in the bytings of men and Apes, but in Serpents alſo.